The Douglas and Auke Bay post offices won’t be closing their doors anytime soon, and any future efforts to shutter the pair now will have to clear a significant public process.

The saving action happened more than 3,700 miles from the Douglas location in the nation’s capital when Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, backed an amendment to the Postal Reform Act of 2014 that added the two locations to a list of protected rural post offices.

“We have been successful in protecting rural post offices in Alaska,” Begich said on a conference call with reporters Thursday.

Bartlett Regional Hospital hopes to have a new permanent CEO on the job sometime in early May.

“There’s a lot of moving parts, so the earliest we anticipate (naming a new CEO) is the beginning of May,” said Mila Cosgrove, human resources director for the hospital. “Of course, it’s going to depend too on who’s picked and when they’re available to start.”

The CEO search committee met Friday to discuss the process and work on the ideal time line. The coming of the summer tourism months is not a factor in the timing of the hiring, she added.

Dan Ewing quit his day job with the State of Alaska last month to focus on his emerging leather works business. The late nights of keeping up with orders from around the globe were becoming too taxing, so now his passion has become his full-time job.

He doesn’t have a store in Juneau — yet — but his renowned leather, along with artwork from about 15 local artists, are available in his booth at the Juneau Public Market this weekend.

The City and Borough of Juneau Law Department will soon be on the move — to the Sealaska building.

The Assembly voted 5-3 in favor of the relocation with Assembly members Loren Jones, Jesse Kiehl and Jerry Nanverkis voting against the measure. That trio backed a proposed amendment presented by Jones that would have funded a remodel of the department’s current space, but that initiative failed along the same vote.

The passed ordinance appropriates $58,000 from the general fund to pay for the move, office furniture and the first six months of rent at the new location.